4 Compelling Reasons You Need To Be More Self-Aware
In the FBI Academy, we trained how to run down and tackle individuals who resisted arrest. I was a lousy runner and came up at the rear of every race. The idea that I could run down or even catch up with a suspect produced snarky comments and rolled eyes from my...
4 Ways To Stay Calm In The Face Of Daily Stress
I had to overcome several obstacles while in the FBI Academy as I trained to become an FBI agent. I needed to learn how to stay calm in the face of daily stress because I found it difficult to pass the physical fitness requirements. Among the many lessons I learned...
5 Ways You Can Use Visualization To Achieve Top Performance
I’ve always been afraid of water. To confront those fears, I decided to learn how to scuba dive, even before I learned how to swim! I would to use visualization to achieve top performance if I hoped to get out alive. One of the requirements of a scuba dive...
6 Simple Ways You Can Use Neuroscience To Improve Your Day
As the spokesperson for the FBI in Northern California, there were long stretches of the day when eating became hard to fit in, as were bathroom breaks. Each day was a full onslaught of updates on important cases, calls to return, emails to read and interviews to...
5 Important Life Lessons To Make You More Successful
I wish I’d been smarter in my teens and early twenties. Like many others, I thought I knew what was best for myself, but I wasn’t seasoned enough to understand how life lessons are gifts that keep coming—until we die. In my younger years, I didn’t characterize many of...
4 Powerful Ways You Can Make Yourself More Resilient—Now
When it comes to trauma, why do people who start out with the same injury end up with different responses? Why are some people more resilient? Two women are molested as teenagers; one is a survivor who confronts her abuser with purpose and conviction. The other...
5 Easy Ways You Can Change The Way You Look At Your Life
The word “can’t” is probably the only four letter word I never heard in my 24 years as an FBI agent. I learned early in my career that negativity would impair my ability to analyze a tough case that looked impossible to crack. Once you allow a negative thought to take...
How You Need To Compete In An Era Of Disruption
My Grandfather was a horse trader. Born in 1900, he used a team of horses to move everything, from rocks to lumber. Cars started an era of disruption, but horses still moved the other stuff on our Wyoming ranch. In 1926 the first Ferguson tractor was built and it...
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